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Long-term outcomes of thoracic transplant recipients following conversion to everolimus with reduced calcineurin inhibitor in a multicenter, open-label, randomized trial
Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; Faculty of Medicine, K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre and Center for Heart Failure Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark.
Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2016 (English)In: Transplant International, ISSN 0934-0874, E-ISSN 1432-2277, Vol. 29, no 7, p. 819-829Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The NOCTET study randomized 282 patients ≥1 year after heart or lung transplantation to continue conventional calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) therapy or to start everolimus with reduced-exposure CNI. Last follow-up, at ≥5 years postrandomization (mean: 5.6 years) was attended by 72/140 everolimus patients (51.4%) and 91/142 controls (64.1%). Mean measured GFR remained stable in the everolimus group from randomization (51.3 ml/min) to last visit (51.4 ml/min) but decreased in controls (from 50.5 ml/min to 45.3 ml/min) and was significantly higher with everolimus at last follow-up (P = 0.004). The least squares mean (SE) change from randomization was -1.5 (1.7)ml/min with everolimus versus -7.2 (1.7)ml/min for controls (difference: 5.7 [95% CI 1.7; 9.6]ml/min; P = 0.006). The difference was accounted for by heart transplant patients (difference: 6.9 [95% 2.3; 11.5]ml/min; P = 0.004). Lung transplant patients showed no between-group difference at last follow-up. Rates of rejection, death, and major cardiac events were similar between groups, as was graft function. Pneumonia was more frequent with everolimus (18.3% vs. 6.4%). In conclusion, introducing everolimus in maintenance heart transplant patients, with reduced CNI, achieves a significant improvement in renal function which is maintained for at least 5 years, but an early renal benefit in lung transplant patients was lost. Long-term immunosuppressive efficacy was maintained.

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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2016. Vol. 29, no 7, p. 819-829
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calcineurin inhibitor, certican, cyclosporine, everolimus, heart, lung, randomized, renal impairment, tacrolimus, transplantation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130205DOI: 10.1111/tri.12783ISI: 000379691200009PubMedID: 27067532OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-130205DiVA, id: diva2:948976
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Funding agencies: Novartis Scandinavia

Available from: 2016-07-14 Created: 2016-07-14 Last updated: 2017-11-28Bibliographically approved

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